FAMILIES IN LONDON TEMPORARY HOUSING TOLD THEY CANNOT USE IN-BUILT AIR CONDITIONING

Exclusive: Two children taken to hospital during heatwaves after residents told units in glass-fronted block ‘not offered as amenity’ Homeless families placed in temporary accommodation in London were told they could… Other families placed in Britannia Point in Colliers Wood, south-west London, also experienced such stifling conditions that young children became ill.

The Guardian reports that exclusive: Two children taken to hospital during heatwaves after residents told units in glass-fronted block ‘not offered as amenity’ Homeless families placed in temporary accommodation in London were told they could…

The report adds: Other families placed in Britannia Point in Colliers Wood, south-west London, also experienced such stifling conditions that young children became ill.

The company managing some of the tenancies involved told the Guardian households in temporary accommodation had now been told they could use the air conditioning.

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